Climate averages 1991–2020
Ribeirão das Neves weather
in December.
A warm, very wet month: the 6th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a warm month in Ribeirão das Neves: daytime highs average 26.6°C and nights cool to about 19.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 225 mm of rain on roughly 21 days, which makes December a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 18 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Contagem (19 km away). In December its highs average 25.7°C, 0.9°C cooler than Ribeirão das Neves, with 260 mm of rain.
Among the 448 cities listed in Brazil, Ribeirão das Neves ranks joint 350th of 448 for the warmest December highs and joint 314th of 448 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 448 cities is 28.5°C; Ribeirão das Neves is 1.9°C cooler than that mean.
From December to January, average highs rise by 0.6°C to 27.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 225 mm to 188 mm.
The annual picture
December in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Ribeirão das Neves climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 27.2°C19.3°C | 19.3°C | 188 | 16.6 | 13.213 h |
| February | 27.7°C19.3°C | 19.3°C | 103 | 11.4 | 12.813 h |
| March | 26.9°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 121 | 14.4 | 12.212 h |
| April | 26.1°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 44 | 8.1 | 11.712 h |
| May | 24.3°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 26 | 4.1 | 11.211 h |
| June | 23.6°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 7.0 | 1.3 | 11.011 h |
| July | 23.9°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 3.5 | 0.6 | 11.111 h |
| August | 25.5°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 8.1 | 1.5 | 11.411 h |
| September | 27.2°C16.3°C | 16.3°C | 40 | 5.6 | 12.012 h |
| October | 27.8°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 72 | 9.9 | 12.513 h |
| November | 26.4°C18.4°C | 18.4°C | 167 | 17.2 | 13.013 h |
| December, selected | 26.6°C19.0°C | 19.0°C | 225 | 20.5 | 13.313 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
December in nearby cities
- Contagem in DecemberBrazil · 19 kmHigh 25.7°C · Low 18.1°C · 260 mm rain
- Vespasiano in DecemberBrazil · 19 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 19.5°C · 225 mm rain
- Belo Horizonte in DecemberBrazil · 23 kmHigh 26.1°C · Low 18.3°C · 260 mm rain
- Esmeraldas, Brazil in DecemberBrazil · 24 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 19.4°C · 269 mm rain
- Santa Luzia in DecemberBrazil · 25 kmHigh 26.8°C · Low 19.1°C · 217 mm rain
- Lagoa Santa in DecemberBrazil · 25 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 18.8°C · 225 mm rain
- Betim in DecemberBrazil · 25 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 18.5°C · 272 mm rain
- Ibirité in DecemberBrazil · 29 kmHigh 26.1°C · Low 18.5°C · 260 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Ribeirão das Neves) is explained once on the Ribeirão das Neves year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Vespasiano and Lagoa Santa lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.